moving /var and /home to a new partition
Raul A. Gallegos
raul at asmodean.net
Wed Mar 30 15:11:44 EST 2005
Hi. I have FC3 installed and currently use the following on one hdd:
/hda1 swap
/hda2 /
/hda3 /usr/local
/hda4 /home
I did this because at time of install I only had one drive. Now I will be
installing a second drive for /home only. So what I want to do is move
/home to /hdc1 and then move /var to home's current partition /hda4.
I boot into single user mode first and edit fstab.
I know how to edit /etc/fstab but my question is what parameters I should
give mv when moving the directories.
I figured I could temporarily mount /hdc1 as /newhome then:
cd /home
mv * /newhome
Now I can umount /newhome
Now for /var I could do:
cd /var
mv * /home
So when I reboot all the /var files will be in /home's old partition /hda4
and the new /home will be on /hdc1.
What I'm worried about is preserving all permissions, ownerships, etc.
Does this all look right?
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